Financial Adviser Alexander Cruz

People Ignore My Advice?

Alexander Cruz is a financial adviser at SagePoint Financial in Los Angeles. Before participating in a panel on young Californians and retirement, he talked steak and mother-in-law’s tongue (the plant), Joan Rivers and scrap lumber in the Zócalo green room.

Q:

How do you like your steak?


A:

Medium-rare.


Q:

What was the first thing you bought with your own money?


A:

Wow, I can’t even remember. It was probably a meal. I think it was a meal.


Q:

What’s your favorite plant or flower?


A:

The plant mother-in-law’s tongue.


Q:

What are you keeping in your garage that you should have thrown out already?


A:

Scrap lumber.


Q:

What piece of financial advice do you give that people most frequently ignore?


A:

People ignore my financial advice?


Q:

What year, past or future, would you time travel to if you could?


A:

I’d like to go back to the Philippines, just as a fly on the wall, around martial law time.


Q:

What are you reading right now?


A:

Backcountry Adventures. Peter Massey is the author.


Q:

What was the last thing that made you laugh?


A:

The Fashion Police—a tribute to Joan Rivers.


Q:

What’s your worst habit?


A:

Waking up late.


Q:

If you didn’t live in L.A., where would you be?


A:

Colorado.